Securian LTC Awareness Month

Long-term care (LTC) consumer social media e-toolkit Long-Term Care Insurance Awareness Month is already under way — use this toolkit to help educate and engage prospects. Leverage the kit’s pre-built posts to help prospects get the facts about long-term care and motivate them to start making a plan of their own — with your guidance. Each post includes lead-in text and an animated image to help drive engagement. Facebook & LinkedIn campaigns How it works: Open the animated image and save the mp4 file to your computer by clicking the three dots in the right-hand corner and selecting download. Copy
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Securian.

Living Promise Paper App Update – Arkansas Only

Effective November 1, 2020 we will be discontinuing the Arkansas state special version of the Living Promise paper application (form number: D389LAR12A). Arkansas will now use the Living Promise interstate compact application (form number: ICC14L643A). Please note, Arkansas only allows the Living Promise Level benefit product. Arkansas does not allow the Living Promise Graded benefit product.   Transition Rules Living Promise paper applications using the old Arkansas application (form number: D389LAR12A) must have a signed date on or before November 15, 2020 and must be received in the home office by November 30, 2020. After November 30, 2020 all Living
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Medicare Solutions – Omaha Family of Companies

Medicare Supplement: Upcoming Rate Adjustments View upcoming rate adjustments for Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Virginia.   Medicare Supplement Premium Savings Learn how to help your Medicare clients save money on their Medicare supplement policies.   Prescription Drug Plans: Clarification on PDP Credit Card Payment Options There has been a lot of confusion around Prescription Drug Plan credit card payments, let us clear up confusion.   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Dental, Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Recipes for LTC Success

Recipes for Success Just in time for the holiday season, Mutual of Omaha cooked up some recipes to help you begin the conversation about the importance of planning for long-term care. Recipes for LTC Success   Recipes for LTC Success   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha #longtermcare
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Agent Portal How-To Video | Easily Submit Apps and Instantly Issue Policies

Not meeting clients in person during AEP? No problem! Watch a short video and see how easy it is to submit Advantage Plus applications and instantly issue policies on the Agent Portal. Watch Video   Visit Agent Portal     Agent Portal How-To Video | Easily Submit Apps and Instantly Issue Policies   #goldencareagent #gtl
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Categories: Critical Illness, Guarantee Trust Life, Hospital Indemnity Plan, Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Short-Term Care.

Can You Keep All the AG49-A Changes Straight?

It’s been happening for a while now. Carriers have been designing products to get around the original AG49 illustration regulations introduced in 2015. Competitors developed all kinds of complex features just to allow their IUL products to illustrate better on paper. You’ve probably heard it referred to as ‘the illustration wars’. The problem is: clients didn’t understand what they were buying and there’s a good chance many of these policies won’t live up to their illustrated performance. And, these complex features also came with increased charges. So, if these products aren’t client-friendly, why are they still being sold? Simple. Because
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Register Now: All About Underwriting Webinar

WE’RE HOSTING AN LTC WEBINAR SERIES Join your Mutual of Omaha LTC Underwriting and New Business team as we talk all about underwriting. The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 19, 2020 Start Time: 10:30 AM Central Duration: 30 minutes REGISTER NOW!   If you have any questions, please contact Mutual of Omaha’s Sales Support at (800) 693-6083 or email sales.support@mutualofomaha.com.   Register Now: All About Underwriting Webinar   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha #longtermcare
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Telephone Solicitation Bans for the Month of November 2020

Please be aware of the following US holiday telephone solicitation bans for the month of November 2020: On Wednesday, November 11, 2020: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Utah prohibit unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Veterans’ Day. On Thursday, November 26,2020: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Utah prohibit unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Thanksgiving. On Friday, November 27, 2020: Louisiana may prohibit unsolicited marketing calls to residents in observance of Acadian Day (may be declared by the governor). On Friday, November 27, 2020: Pennsylvania prohibits unsolicited marketing calls to residents in
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Categories: Industry News and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Medicare Solutions – Omaha Family of Companies

Medicare Supplement: Upcoming Rate Adjustments View upcoming rate adjustments for Oregon, Louisiana, and New Jersey.   Medicare Solutions Product Portfolio Offerings Mutual offers a suite of products designed to meet the needs of your Medicare aged clients. Learn more.   New Enhanced Customer Experience At Mutual of Omaha, we are constantly striving to improve the customer experience. There are new Customer Access enhancements that have been made, in order to assist your clients with self servicing their policies.   Dental: Rate Adjustment and Multi-Policy Discount Missouri and Tennessee have approved a Dental Rate Reduction on DNT5 and a multi-policy discount.
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Categories: Dental, Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Underwriting Next Steps & LTC Awareness Month

Consumer Underwriting Next Steps flyer The Consumer Underwriting Next Steps flyer can help your clients understand and be prepared for the next steps in the underwriting process. The first page of the flyer contains helpful information regarding medical information, the personal health phone interview and the face-to-face interview. The back page can be used to gather information about their primary care physician, specialist physician and any current medications (prescription and over-the-counter). This is also available on the Agent Resource Center.   November is Long Term Care Awareness Month In a year that has revolved around the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and National Guardian Life.